White House Touts Trump Fundraising

President has leveraged press attacks in rallies, e-mail solicitations

The White House was trumpeting President Donald Trump's fundraising and campaigning prowess Tuesday (Aug. 21) as the midterm election nears, prowess that often was rooted in attacking the press as a way to drum up those dollars.

That came in a background call with reporters only hours before President Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to campaign finance reform violations in which he implicated the President, according to CNN.